Professionals

SHIKHA JAIN


Director - Preservation and Community Design

Dr. Shikha Jain, Founder Director of DRONAH has an extensive portfolio on cultural heritage of India that covers World Heritage, Cultural Landscapes, Conservation, Heritage based Development and Museum Planning of several projects for the Government of India, State Governmentsand international organizations such as the Getty Foundation and the World Monuments Fund.

As an international expert on World Heritage, she has advised government organizations in Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, Myanmar and UNESCO Offices at Jakarta, Indonesia and Myanmar and, worked as consultant to the UNESCO New Delhi on several missions including nominations and training programs on cultural landscapes. She has steered several UNESCO World Heritage listings in India. She represented India as a Cultural Heritage expert in the UNESCO World Heritage Committee during India’s elected term in Committee from 2011-2015 and, is representing India as a bureau member on behalf of Government of India in the forthcoming 45th World Heritage Committee Session of UNESCO in Sep 2023.

As Director, DRONAH, she has led more than 60 conservation and museum planning projects across India and received HUDCO awards for 2 projects in 2013 which are also documented as Best Practice projects by the Ministry of Urban Development in 2015 and 2022. She is the State Convener of INTACH Haryana Chapter and member of the Advisory Committee on World Heritage under ASI, Ministry of Culture. She is Vice President, ICOFORT, ICOMOS, and an expert member of the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes, ICOMOS.

She has contributed several papers and articles on the cultural heritage of India in national and international journals and conferences. She has authored/ edited books: Essay on the Conservation of City Place Udaipur (MMCF) featured in the catalogue for the exhibition, ‘A Splendid Land’ at the Smithsonian, USA (2022), Incredible Treasures: UNESCO World Heritage Sites of India (Mapin Publication Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad 2021), Strongholds of Western India: The Forts of Maharashtra, (Aryan Publishers, New Delhi), Living Heritage of Mewar, The City Palace, Udaipur (Mapin Publishing Singapore 2017), Haryana: Cultural Heritage supported by INTACH and ASI (Aryan Publications, 2012), Stone Crafts of Rajasthan (CDOS, Government of Rajasthan, 2010), Princely Terrain: Amber, Jaipur and Shekhawati (Shubhi Publications, 2004) and Havelis: A Living Tradition of Rajasthan (Shubhi Publications, 2004), She is Visiting Faculty for Urban Conservation in the Department of Urban Planning, SPA, New Delhi and UNESCO C2C at WII, Dehradun and, Adjunct Faculty at Centre for Heritage Management, Ahmedabad University.